Lakeshore Music Presents Michael Kocour And Friends With Dee Alexander at Tempe Center for the Arts

7:30pm – 10:00pm; Jerry Donato, reeds; Michael Kocour, piano (leader); Dwight Kilian, bass; Dom Moio, drums; Tickets $35; 480-350-2822. The TCA All-Stars team up for a night of classic jazz with acclaimed Chicago vocalist Dee Alexander. The TCA All-Stars should already be familiar to those who follow the Lakeshore Music Series. These musicians are the A-Team throughout the larger Phoenix music community. Dee Alexander is among the premier vocalists and songwriters in American music today and one of Chicago’s most gifted and respected artists. Her performances span virtually every musical genre related to the African diaspora, gospel, blues, neo-soul, rhythm-and-blues and world music, but her true heart belongs to jazz, the one idiom that can encompass all her influences...

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7:30pm – 10:00pm; Jerry Donato, reeds; Michael Kocour, piano (leader); Dwight Kilian, bass; Dom Moio, drums; Tickets $35; 480-350-2822. The TCA All-Stars team up for a night of classic jazz with acclaimed Chicago vocalist Dee Alexander. The TCA All-Stars should already be familiar to those who follow the Lakeshore Music Series. These musicians are the A-Team throughout the larger Phoenix music community. Dee Alexander is among the premier vocalists and songwriters in American music today and one of Chicago’s most gifted and respected artists. Her performances span virtually every musical genre related to the African diaspora, gospel, blues, neo-soul, rhythm-and-blues and world music, but her true heart belongs to jazz, the one idiom that can encompass all her influences. Michael Kocour is a jazz pianist, organist and composer. He also serves as Director of Jazz Studies at the Herberger the School of Music at Arizona State University. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “one of the most sophisticated pianists in jazz,” Kocour has performed at venues around the world and was a guest on the late Marian McPartland’s internationally syndicated NPR program “Piano Jazz.” Among the many artists and ensembles with whom he has appeared with are Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Lovano, Eddie Harris, James Moody, Eddie Daniels, Randy Brecker, Benny Golson, Ira Sullivan, Carl Fontana, Dewey Redman, Lew Tabackin, and the Chicago Symphony.

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